(responding to Tim)
Just triple-checking: Exiting the program in the usual may not be
enough....
Just to be really really safe, I'll reboot (before my step 1)!
I'm not sure about Thunderbird, but many mail programs are often
like
that.
You end up using some command like "evolution --quit"
and/or "killall
evolution"
(a few times), to get evolution to actually quit.
Seems like
evolution needs some evolution! Paging Darwin......
(responding to sixpack13)
.... I would only do the following: - forget all I wrote up so far -
....
I saw this post too late. But thank-you, anyway.
(following up on my last post)
... after checking for any further posts on this thread, I'll try
to: ...
The 8 steps worked.
* Step 5, the importing address books part, was tedious and took a long
time. Some manual editing of the csv files was needed. But it got done.
* Step 7, copying the filter files had to be done slowly and very
carefully, as file paths were long and v-e-r-y similar but not
identical. Using the two Files GUIs really helped.
Bottom line: success!
(responding to sixpack13)
be prepared for F31 in two weeks or so !!!
For reasons stated
in another thread, I will not upgrade to F31 until
about 2 weeks before F32 is initially released (April 2020?).
I thank all participants for their time and effort.
I'm tagging this thread SOLVED.
Now (well, maybe in a little while) I can go back to the "upgrade
problem: space on '/' filesystem".
Bill.